Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages
Physical activity and a healthy diet are recognised as important lifestyle factors for maintaining a healthy bodyweight and preventing chronic disease. Retirement villages are a unique setting to reach older adults to test the effectiveness of approaches to increase physical activity levels. improve...
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2017
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| description | Physical activity and a healthy diet are recognised as important lifestyle factors for maintaining a healthy bodyweight and preventing chronic disease. Retirement villages are a unique setting to reach older adults to test the effectiveness of approaches to increase physical activity levels. improve nutrition and maintain a healthy bodyweight. This cluster-RCT based in Perth, Western Australia evaluated the effectiveness of a 6-month physical activity and nutrition program for ‘insufficiently’ active adults aged 60-80 years. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-682842018-05-21T00:09:47Z Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages Holt, Anne-Marie Physical activity and a healthy diet are recognised as important lifestyle factors for maintaining a healthy bodyweight and preventing chronic disease. Retirement villages are a unique setting to reach older adults to test the effectiveness of approaches to increase physical activity levels. improve nutrition and maintain a healthy bodyweight. This cluster-RCT based in Perth, Western Australia evaluated the effectiveness of a 6-month physical activity and nutrition program for ‘insufficiently’ active adults aged 60-80 years. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68284 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Holt, Anne-Marie Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages |
| title | Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages |
| title_full | Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages |
| title_fullStr | Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages |
| title_short | Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Older Adults Residing in Retirement Villages |
| title_sort | development, implementation and evaluation of a physical activity and nutrition program for older adults residing in retirement villages |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68284 |